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Dennis Wagner, editor
Number Sixty-seven, October 31, 2007
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IN THIS ARN-ANNOUNCE:
- NEW BOOK: The Spiritual Brain by
Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary
- ARN VIDEO Clips Now
Available on YouTube
- Edge of Evolution: Critics Lash Out, Behe Responds (Where He Can)
- Redeeming Darwin: New Video Study Kit (and free definition Reference Guide)
- Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. Coming to a Theater Near You
- Dr. G: You Literally Are What You Eat. The Design of Your GI
System
- 2008 ID Calendars Now
Available
- A Day in the Life of a Materialist by
Roddy Bullock
- The Design of the Human Hand. How Hard Can
it Be?
- The God Delusion Deconstructed, free audio lecture by Peter S. Williams
- Dogbert on Darwinian
Evolution
- A Debate Between Socrates and
Hector Dawkins
NEW BOOK:
The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the
Existence of the Soul
 What People are saying about The Spiritual Brain …
I've just finished reading The
Spiritual Brain. It's superb, and is a milestone in what I think is
going to be a 'long twilight struggle' against materialist neuroscience. --
neurosurgeon Mike Egnor
Just
wanted to let you know that I just finished reading ... and found it to be
dynamite. – Palliative care doctor
"If you have a mind, you
will find The
Spiritual Brain a refreshing antidote to the strange arguments offered
by some scientists who insist that their minds, and yours, are meaningless
illusions." -- Dean Radin, PhD, Senior Scientist, Institute of
Noetic Sciences and author of The Conscious Universe and Entangled Minds.
The
Spiritual Brain is a wonderful and important book that provides new
insights into our experience of religion and God. It offers a unique
perspective to the ongoing dialogue between science and religion. This book is
a necessary read for both the scientist and the religious person.
-- Andrew Newberg, M.D. Associate Professor of Radiology and Director of
the Center for Spirituality and the Mind at the University of Pennsylvania. Co-author of Why We Believe What We Believe.
"The
Spiritual Brain is a very important book. It clearly explains
non-materialist neuroscience in simple terms appropriate for the lay reader,
while building on and extending work that Sharon Begley and I began in The Mind
and The Brain, and work that Mario and I collaborated on in academic
publications." -- neuropsychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz, author of The Mind and the Brain
"I truly was bowled over by the book, ... In The
Spiritual Brain neuroscientist Mario Beauregard and science writer
Denyse O’Leary push back hard. First they debunk the most widely touted urban
legends of impoverished materialism" -- Michael Behe, author of Edge of Evolution
View the table of contents or order here.
| Can the Edge of Evolution really be debated?
 The Darwinist reviews of Michael
Behe’s ground-breaking new book the Edge of
Evolution, are now appearing, but David Tyler documents how misinformation is being spread in the reviews with little opportunity for
Behe to set the record straight. Fortunately Amazon.com allows authors to
defend their books against the critics and Behe has been responding to
published criticism here.
Who cares what the Darwinists are saying anyway? The masses don’t read the
scientific literature, but they do watch Comedy Central where Behe was recently
interviewed on the Colbert Report and was accused of looking more and
more like Mr. Darwin himself.
|
| Redeeming Darwin: Discovering the
Designer
 Redeeming Darwin is a new small
group study program by Probe designed to help churches and Christian student
groups understand the Darwin v. Design debate. It includes two DVDs and
several study/leader guides. We thought the Reference Guide was particularly
helpful in defining important terms and have received permission to offer you a free
sample here.
|
| Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
 On Darwin Day, February 12, 2008,
the world will learn the real reason intelligent design has been Expelled from the classroom.
In this controversial documentary that will open in theaters across the U.S.,
actor and screenwriter Ben Stein (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) will
confront the scientism of the Neo Darwinian “Machine” exposing
widespread suppression and entrenched discrimination in his heroic quest to
bring back freedom in our institutions, laboratories and most importantly, in
our classrooms. You can read the movie press release in the ARN ID News Blog here.
Spread the word to your friends and colleagues and let’s show up in mass in the
theaters on Darwin Day 2008.
|
You Literally Are What
You Eat
In his last two columns Dr. Glicksman has taken us on a
detailed tour of the design of the human gastrointestinal GI) system and how it
allows for digestion and absorption of food for our survival. You can’t help
but to notice how every part of the system has its own job to do. People who
believe that all life came about solely by the forces of nature, (natural selection
acting on random variation), without a mind being at work, must be able to
explain how each component of the system came into being while staying
functional every step along the way. To start your tour, go to You
Literally Are What You Eat Part I and Part II. |
| 2008 ID Calendars Now Available
 The ARN Intelligently Designed
Calendars are now available in 2008 editions. These calendars include 13
stunning photos and ID related quotes that are sure to get a conversation going
in your home or office. Order your Patterns in Nature or Mind Preceded
Matter calendar today. Be sure to read the detailed descriptions for
each photo at our online store. Many of our ID T-Shirt graphics are also
available on a single
page calendar.
|
| The Design of
the Human Hand
 The human
hand seems like a pretty simple device—until you try to build one. This paper presents the first results of Italian researchers in developing an
anthropomorphic dextrous hand for a 2-years-old Humanoid. Read it, and then
stare at your hand with a renewed appreciation of the miraculous capabilities
of random mutations and natural selection.
|
| Dogbert
(and Scott Adams) on Evolution
 When Denyse O’Leary isn’t
writing books about the brain, or searching the four corners of the earth for
the latest story on Darwin or Design, she’s keeping an eye out for the “fun”
stuff—the cartoons or videos that make us laugh at ourselves or laugh at the
whole debate. Dilbert cartoonist, Scott Adams, found out doubting Darwin is not a laughing matter, so he decided to make it one. Check out Denyse’s Dogbert
story on the ARN blog and follow the link to watch Dogbert expound on
the theory of evolution via the YouTube clip.
|
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